The two following two papers are the winners ex-equo of the EATCS award for the best ETAPS paper:

Weakest Precondition Reasoning for Expected Run–Times of Probabilistic Programs⋆ Benjamin Lucien Kaminski, Joost-Pieter Katoen, Christoph Matheja, and Federico Olmedo (ESOP)

Neil Ghani, Fredrik Nordvall Forsberg, and Alex Simpson Comprehensive Parametric Polymorphism: Categorical Models and Type Theory (FDOSSACS)

The committee for selecting the winner(s) for this award was composed by Don Sannella, Luca Aceto, and Catuscia Palamidessi

Sad news: Zoltán Ésik passed away yesterday

Our good colleague and friend Zoltán Ésik passed away suddenly yesterday afternoon in the hotel room where he was staying with his wife during a visit to our group at Reykjavik University. He had delivered a survey talk at Reykjavik University on the Equational Logic of Fixed Point Operations on Tuesday and we were making plans for the coming days.

The 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2016) will be held in Rome (Italy) from July 12-th  to 15-th 2016 (http://www.easyconferences.eu/icalp2016/index.html).

The 2016 Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation is given to Rajeev Alur and David Dill for their invention of timed automata, a decidable model of real-time systems, which combines a novel, elegant, deep theory with widespread practical impact.

Rajeev Alur and David Dill: A theory of timed automata. Theoretical Computer Science 126(2):183–235, 1994.

The 2016 Gödel Prize is awarded to Stephen Brookes and Peter W. O'Hearn for their invention of Concurrent Separation Logic, as described in the following two papers:

• S. Brookes, A Semantics for Concurrent Separation Logic. Theoretical Computer Science 375(1-3): 227-270 (2007)
• P. W. O’Hearn, Resources, Concurrency, and Local Reasoning. Theoretical Computer Science 375(1-3): 271-307 (2007)

Stephen Brookes and Peter O'Hearn will receive the 2016 Gödel Prize at the 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP 2016), 12-15 July 2016, in Rome, Italy.

The PCs for the three tracks of ICALP 2016 have selected the articles that will receive the best paper and best student paper awards at the conference.